Legacy Emile Londonien

• 1 Legacy 04:29
• 2 Still from the East 03:13
• 3 Archives 04:51
• 4 The Witness 01:46
• 5 Laziness 03:30
• 6 Make It Easy 03:05
• 7 House Party (Live at Worldwide Festival) 01:53
• 8 An Ode 05:01
• 9 Omezis Dna 03:05
• 10 Twenty Fifteen 03:09
• 11 Emile 04:18
• Total Runtime 38:20

Info for Legacy

Emerging from the Strasbourg scene and the Omezis collective, which includes about twenty artists, musi-cians, DJs, and videographers, Emile Londonien soaks up the English jazz scene of the last fifteen years and offers up a personal version.

Trained at the Strasbourg Conservatory, the three musi-cians met during thematic evenings organized by the Omezis collective, co-founded by drummer Matthieu Drago. A studio session paying tribute to the English scene followed in 2020. The moniker Emile Londonien, a double nod to their UK influences and to a famous French saxophonist, sprang up spontaneously.

The Covid-19 pandemic put the project on hold until their recordings fell into the hands of Dope Tone, the historical Strasbourg broken beat label, and then things started to accelerate. Influential DJs like Lefto immediately shared the tracks from this first session. Thus, emblematic of a generation that grew up in club culture, the band was launched, blending that very culture with the jazz trio tradition.

Regularly playlisted on the BBC, their first productions found an enthusiastic echo, and the praise poured in, starting with that of the influential DJ and producer Gilles Peterson himself, who sees them as heirs: “I saw these guys recently live. They are a sort of celebration of the last 10-15 years of the UK jazz scene…It’s a crossroads place.” Unknown until a few months prior, the band played Sète’s Worldwide Festival, the Mon-treux Jazz Festival in the summer of 2021, and Nancy Jazz Pulsations, confirming on stage all the good that was already clear from listening to their recordings.

Influenced by Yussef Kamaal, The Comet Is Coming, Atjazz, SunRa, and also Ornette Coleman or Thelonious Monk and by the Broken Beat, Jazz, House, and Hip Hop scenes, Emile Londonien perfectly incarnates this “next gen” French jazz alongside Léon Phal, whose sound is close to theirs. Beyond labels, they mix tradi-tion and contemporary music with ease, as measured on the dancefloor.

Emile Londonien:
Matthieu Drago, drums, percussions
Midva, piano, Fender Rhodes, synthesizer
Théo Tritsch, bass
Guests:
Remy Arneas, percussion (tracks 1, 6, 9)
Antoine Berjeaut, trumpet (tracks 1, 9)
Sven Boyny, viola (tracks 9, 10)
Loïse Campagna, flute (tracks 2, 9, 10)
Lara Issa, vocals (tracks 6, 7)
Kuna Maze, synthesizer, dub siren (track 7)
Leon Phal, saxophone (tracks 1, 9)
Jeremie Revel, guitars (tracks 4, 9, 10)

Emile Londonien
Emerging from the Strasbourg scene and the Omezis collective, which includes about twenty artists, musicians, DJs, and videographers, Emile Londonien soaks up the English jazz scene of the last fifteen years and offers up a personal version.

Trained at the Strasbourg Conservatory, the three musicians met during thematic evenings organized by the Omezis collective, co-founded by drummer Matthieu Drago. A studio session paying tribute to the English scene followed in 2020. The moniker Emile Londonien, a double nod to their UK influences and to a famous French saxophonist, sprang up spontaneously.

The Covid-19 pandemic put the project on hold until their recordings fell into the hands of Dope Tone, the historical Strasbourg broken beat label, and then things started to accelerate. Influential DJs like Lefto immediately shared the tracks from this first session. Thus, emblematic of a generation that grew up in club culture, the band was launched, blending that very culture with the jazz trio tradition.

Regularly playlisted on the BBC, their first productions found an enthusiastic echo, and the praise poured in, starting with that of the influential DJ and producer Gilles Peterson himself, who sees them as heirs: “I saw these guys recently live. They are a sort of celebration of the last 10-15 years of the UK jazz scene…It’s a crossroads place.” Unknown until a few months prior, the band played Sète's Worldwide Festival, the Montreux Jazz Festival in the summer of 2021, and Nancy Jazz Pulsations, confirming on stage all the good that was already clear from listening to their recordings.

Influenced by Yussef Kamaal, The Comet Is Coming, Atjazz, SunRa, and also Ornette Coleman or Thelonious Monk and by the Broken Beat, Jazz, House, and Hip Hop scenes, Emile Londonien perfectly incarnates this “next gen” French jazz alongside Léon Phal, whose sound is close to theirs. Beyond labels, they mix tradition and contemporary music with ease, as measured on the dancefloor.

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